Is The Pursuit Of Happiness Self-Defeating?
A couple of friends asked me for my thoughts on this Vox article “America is obsessed with happiness — and it’s making us miserable” […]
October 2016
September 2016
4 Reasons Almost All Happiness Advice Sucks (But Not This Article, Obviously)
[You haven’t found the droids you were looking for]
Reading time: 3-5 minutes, 1200 words, 5 pics, only one of a topless Arnold Schwarzenegger
Realistically, I’d […]
August 2016
How Socrates Can Make You Happier Than Kanye West – notes from Wilderness talk
I’ve written this post so people who attended my talk at Wilderness festival on 05/08/16 can find more info including the resources I promised.
If you […]
July 2016
Why Aristotle’s eudaimonia isn’t ‘A better kind of happiness’. A critical reply to the New Yorker
Writing in the New Yorker, Will Storr argues Aristotle offers us “A better kind of happiness“.
To summarise his argument, Will claims Aristotle’s ‘eudaimonic’ version of happiness, […]
Four free ways to become happier you probably haven’t tried and might actually work
In this post I suggest the best resources I’ve come across so far. I think these are the most promising practical methods to become happier and […]
May 2016
If you had a billion pounds and an urge to maximise world happiness, what should you do?
What should a billionaire do to maximise human happiness?
Reading time: 11-14 minutes
[Note to reader. This is a draft 5,000-word essay that […]
April 2016
How To Life A Happy Life – Interview With University Of Oxford
I was recently interviewed as part of Oxford’s How To Life A Happy Life, one of their Research In Conversation series. The link […]
January 2016
Need a new New Year’s Resolution? Teach yourself to be happier in 12 minutes a day
It’s a New Year. This means, for a limited period only, it’s acceptable to tell strangers about our grand plans to win at life: how […]
November 2015
Want To Be Happier? Change How You Think Or What You Think About.
What would bring you more happiness? Go on, I’m asking you. I’m not going to give it to you, but I’d like to know. Serious […]
October 2015
How can we pursue happiness if we don’t know what it is?
Everyone wants to be happy, don’t they? Aristotle thought it was the goal of life. The Declaration of Independence states we have an alienable right to […]